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...game is called "Blacks & Whites," and it is unmistakably derived from Monopoly. Its object: to capture enough complete neighborhoods to drive competitors into bankruptcy. Each player decides at the outset whether to compete as a white or as a black (though the directions specify that "whites are never the minority"). Blacks start with $10,000 in paper assets, whites with $1 million. As many as nine players move black and white pawns according to the throw of the dice, collecting cash ($50,000 for whites, $10,000 for blacks) every time they complete a circuit of the board. They...
...reach his hand through to unlock the lock was smaller than the cost of the lock itself. But bars on the window are another matter. In our office, they are screwed into years-old wood which would never withstand a good, strong kick, negating their effectiveness at the outset. The assumption that protestors would sneak in a basement window rather than march openly through normal entryways I also find offensive. Barred windows will not stop revolution and I feel it is a needlessly expensive indulgence of a frightened University...
...organic community within the University functioning along socialist lines. Thus the liberation of Lawrence Hall was far different from the liberation of University Hall in that it was an ongoing project. People wanted space in which to talk, teach, learn, and share. Morcover, since it was clear from the outset that there would not be a police bust (Dean Watson even sent B and G men over to help clean up the building) the Free University would not be able to build student support around negative reactions to Harvard's unmasked malevolence. Nor would the Free University convoke itself...
Perhaps all this involved too optimistic a reading of Harvard's capacity for creativity and spontaneity. Perhaps it also involved too pessimistic a reading of the degree of our alienation from existing structures. Perhaps the problem lies with the Free University itself, which was not at the outset the best vehicle for alienated creativity. My own feeling is that apathy at Harvard is far greater than anyone could have anticipated, and that those who set up Free U. suffer from it as much as those they hoped would use it. More important, I think we have become...
...outset I should like to clear up one misconception about Campaign GM. Our campaign is not under the direction of Ralph Nader. Ralph helped plan the campaign in its early stages and speaks in support of us on numerous occasions. But ever since February 7, 1970, when Campaign GM was launched, Ralph has played no role in formulating its decisions, its statements or its strategies...